Why Am I Here?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
Junior and senior year in high school sometimes seemed like one long slog to Christina. Between the PSATs, the SATs, the APs, the ACTs, her GPA, her sports practices, and her job tutoring, everything was oriented toward polishing her resume and getting her into college.
She went through the entire application process because that's what everyone expected her to do. Now she was in, an undeclared freshman, she couldn't help wondering what she was doing here. Was it right for her to be spending so much of her parents' money on college when she didn't even know what she wanted to study? Was she taking the slot of someone else who would have really known what she wanted from her education? Was college just going to be a repeat of that stressful high school experience, where she felt like she was always preparing for the future but not really living her life?